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6. Homeward bound 🏡

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So now to start the long-ish journey home. As usual, we prefer to take our time and potter, rather than tanking it full on over a couple of days. As the weather was looking better on the north / west side, we headed straight up, passing Zaragoza, and spent the night at an interesting olive oil producer , Artajo, in their grounds and free of charge. The landscape was pretty grim on route, Zaragoza itself being an isolated gem within this, and unfortunately arrival at the farm was not met with the promised sunshine, but instead rain, grey skies, and extremely strong winds 😢  But not feeling disheartened, we quickly organised an olive oil tasting session in the wonderful shop. With the help of Google translate, a very friendly and helpful woman introduced us to all the oils they produced, (all organic), enabled a short film in English on the farm and its processes for us to watch, instructed us on how to actually taste olive oil (we had no idea there was a correct process 🤣), and le...
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5. The unintended road trip 🤣

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Although sad to leave Sierra Espuna we were excited to be heading back to Benigembla in the Vall de Pop, where we were at the start of our trip, but sadly struggling then with gastric flu. With a couple of days to get out and explore before we were due there, we headed a short distance to the coast to Puntas de Calnegre, recommended by Roldon at our previous camp.  Although the cove and beach turned out to be lovely the main camping area looked awful! A sprawling mass of vans and caravans - definitely not our cup of tea, and as the coast was a protected area, sadly we weren’t permitted to camp off grid either 😢 So settled on a lovely picnic lunch on the beach, a roll and dig in the sand for Rubes, and a quick swim for Dave 😃 The temperature was rising, registering 27 degrees on the van (admittedly parked in the sun), so far too hot to leaves Rubes in the van and us go for a walk, decided to move on then, and spend the night elsewhere. Enjoying the picnic 🤣 Rubes couldn’t underst...
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